Answering medical questions at the point of care: a cross-sectional study comparing rapid decisions based on PubMed and Epistemonikos searches with evidence-based recommendations developed with the GRADE approach.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Using the best current evidence to inform clinical decisions remains a challenge for clinicians. Given the scarcity of trustworthy clinical practice guidelines providing recommendations to answer clinicians' daily questions, clinical decision support systems (ie, assistance in question identification and answering) emerge as an attractive alternative. The trustworthiness of the recommendations achieved by such systems is unknown.

Objective

To evaluate the trustworthiness of a question identification and answering system that delivers timely recommendations.

Design

Cross-sectional study.

Methods

We compared the responses to 100 clinical questions related to inpatient management provided by two rapid response methods with 'Gold Standard' recommendati

SUBMITTER: Izcovich A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5629721 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature